Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 168 194
Rank change year-on-year +16 +26 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 8 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 1.02% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 8
10th Percentile £339 £321 £501
25th Percentile £443 £465 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +13.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £634 £663 £538
90th Percentile £659 £825 £541
England median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -4.17%

All Cloud Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,030 1,180 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.92% 25.84% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 815 1,149
10th Percentile £204 £303 £206
25th Percentile £359 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £672 £706
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 54
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.77 £16.43
25th Percentile £14.94 £19.66 £19.81
Median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year -53.53% +45.53% +32.52%
75th Percentile £29.50 £60.44 £60.78
90th Percentile £46.82 £64.73 £74.10
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +12 4 £575 -17.86% 7
Berkshire +18 3 £500 -11.11% 5
Hampshire +13 3 £580 -2.52% 1
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £650 -18.75%
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Serverless
3 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
8 1 (12.50%) Route 53
8 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (25.00%) MySQL
3 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
1 3 (37.50%) Mockito
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (12.50%) DbUnit
3 1 (12.50%) jMock
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Camel
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) jQuery
3 2 (25.00%) JSON
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) React
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (25.00%) Vue
3 2 (25.00%) WireMock
3 2 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) API Development
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Process Management
5 2 (25.00%) Release Management
5 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
6 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
2 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (12.50%) JDA
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft